UK Statutory Instrument 2012 United Kingdom

Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012

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Charity Commission

What this Act requires

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Schedules

Browse 37 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
s.sch001

Register of members

s.sch001

Information as to state of register

s.sch001

Names and former names

s.sch001

Single member CIO

s.sch001

Removal of entries relating to former members after 10 years

s.sch001

Register of charity trustees

s.sch001

Updating registers

s.sch001

Registers to be kept available for inspection

s.sch001

Members register: rights of access

s.sch001

Trustees register: rights of access

s.sch001

Information relating to charity trustees: grounds for refusal

s.sch002

Application of this Schedule

s.sch002

Communications in hard copy form: introduction

s.sch002

Method of communication in hard copy form

s.sch002

Address for communications in hard copy form

s.sch002

Communications in electronic form: introduction

s.sch002

Conditions for use of communications in electronic form

s.sch002

Address for communications in electronic form

s.sch003

Application of this Schedule

s.sch003

Implicit agreement of members to use of website

s.sch003

Availability of document or information on website

s.sch003

Notification of availability on website

s.sch003

Period of availability of website

s.sch003

Communications in hard copy form: introduction

s.sch003

Method of communication in hard copy form

s.sch003

Address for communications in hard copy form

s.sch003

Communications in electronic form: introduction

s.sch003

Conditions for use of communications in electronic form

s.sch003

Address for communications in electronic form

s.sch003

Communications by means of a website: introduction

s.sch003

Agreement to use of website

s.sch004

Amendment of the Charities (Exception from Registration and Accounts) Regulations 1965

s.sch004

Amendment of the Charities (Exception of Universities from Registration) Regulations 1966

s.sch004

Amendment of the Charities (Misleading Names) Regulations 1992

s.sch004

Amendment of the Charities (Exception from Registration) Regulations 1996

s.sch004

Amendment of the Charities (Exception from Registration) Regulations 2008

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Amendment of the Charities (Exception from Registration) Regulations 2010

Browse 63 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
s.001

Citation and commencement

s.002

Interpretation: general

s.003

Interpretation: bodies corporate and associated bodies corporate

s.004

Interpretation: hard copy, electronic form and related expressions

s.005

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s.006

Application of registration provisions in

s.007

Applications for registration: communications with Commission

s.008

Applications for registration: information to be included

s.009

Applications for amalgamation: information to be included

s.010

Transfer of accounting records on amalgamation

s.011

Retention of accounting records after amalgamation

s.012

Interpretation

s.013

Matters to be provided for in constitution

s.014

Constitution not to restrict ability to dispose of property

s.015

Provision for entrenchment

s.016

Date of resolution amending constitution

s.017

Provision for entrenchment: statement of compliance

s.018

Effect of amendment of constitution on members

s.019

CIO contracts

s.020

Execution of documents

s.021

Execution of deeds

s.022

Execution of deeds or other documents by attorney

s.023

Common seal

s.024

Official seal for use abroad

s.025

Bills of exchange and promissory notes

s.026

Requirement to keep registers

s.027

Power of Commission to order rectification of register of members

s.028

Power of court to order rectification of register of members

s.029

Register of members to be evidence

s.030

Time limit for claims arising from entry in register of members

s.031

Eligibility for appointment as charity trustee

s.032

Validity of acts of charity trustee

s.033

Delegation and appointment of nominees

s.034

Duty not to accept benefits from third parties

s.035

Notice of resolutions to be proposed at a general meeting

s.036

Charity trustee with personal interest in decision

s.037

Records to be kept of charity trustees’ decisions

s.038

Charity trustee minutes as evidence

s.039

Charity trustee decision records as evidence

s.040

Power of court or Commission to order meeting

s.041

Records to be kept of members’ decisions

s.042

Records as evidence of members’ decisions

s.043

Records of decisions by sole member

s.044

Inspection of records of decisions and meetings

s.045

Records of resolutions and meetings of classes of members

s.046

CIO records

s.047

Service of documents on CIO

s.048

Service of documents on charity trustees

s.049

The CIO communications provisions

s.050

Sending or supplying documents or information

s.051

CIO’s implied agreement to receive information in electronic form

s.052

Member’s right to hard copy

s.053

Information sent by CIO: time of receipt

s.054

Commission’s requirements as to form etc of document

s.055

Agreement with Commission to send by electronic means

s.056

Requirements for proper delivery to Commission

s.057

Commission’s power to accept document not properly delivered

s.058

Replacement of document not properly delivered to Commission

s.059

Interpretation of the CIO communications provisions

s.060

Fraudulent trading

s.061

Pre-merger vesting declarations

s.062

Notes to CIO’s accounts and statement

s.063

Consequential amendments to secondary legislation

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